Clark stages Deported

Thursday

Sep 5, 2013 at 12:03 PM

Clark University will stage a performance of Deported, a play that tells the story of Armenian genocide survivors on Tuesday, September 10 at 7 p.m. in the Michelson Theater in the Little Center. The event is free and open to the public.

Deported is a staged reading, directed by Judy Braha, of a new play about the Armenian genocide, first produced in 2012 by Boston Playwrights’ Theatre in association with Suffolk University, at the Modern Theatre in Boston.

Playwright Joyce Van Dyke based the play on the story of two friends, her Armenian grandmother and the mother of Clark alumnus Dr. H. Martin Deranian ’47 of Worcester. Seven actors play a cast of more than 20 characters in this dream play that spans a century and ends in the future. There will be a Q&A directly after the reading.

This event is sponsored by Clark University’s Theatre Arts Program, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Higgins School for the Humanities, and the Departments of History and Sociology.

Learn more about the play, Email ClarkArts or call 508-793-7356 for more information.